Amend CSHB 1864 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of 
the bill accordingly:

relating to possession of or access to a child in a suit affecting 
the parent-child relationship during military deployment of the 
child's parent.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 153.3161, Family Code, is amended to 
read as follows:    
	Sec.  153.3161. [LIMITED] POSSESSION DURING MILITARY 
DEPLOYMENT.  (a)  In this section, "military deployment" means 
military duty ordered for a period of more than six months during 
which the person ordered to duty:
		(1)  is not provided the option of being accompanied by 
the person's child; and
		(2)  is serving in a location where access to the 
person's child is not reasonably possible.
	(b)  In addition to the general terms and conditions of 
possession required by Section 153.316, if a possessory conservator 
or a joint managing conservator of the child without the exclusive 
right to designate the primary residence of the child is currently a 
member of the armed forces of the state or the United States or is 
reasonably expected to join those forces, the court shall:
		(1)  permit that conservator to designate a person who 
may exercise [limited] possession of the child on behalf of that 
conservator during any period that the conservator is deployed 
under a military deployment [outside of the United States]; and
		(2)  if the conservator elects to designate a person 
under Subdivision (1), provide in the order for [limited] 
possession of the child by the designated person under those 
circumstances, subject to the court's determination that the 
[limited] possession is in the best interest of the child.
	(c)  [(b)]  If the court determines that the [limited] 
possession is in the best interest of the child, the court shall 
provide in the order that during periods of military deployment:
		(1)  the designated person has the right to possession 
of the child for the periods and in the manner in which the deployed 
conservator would be entitled to exercise possession if not 
deployed [on the first weekend of each month beginning at 6 p.m. on 
Friday and ending at 6 p.m. on Sunday];
		(2)  [the other parent shall surrender the child to the 
designated person at the beginning of each period of possession at 
the other parent's residence;
		[(3)  the designated person shall return the child to 
the other parent's residence at the end of each period of 
possession;
		[(4)]  the child's other parent and the designated 
person are subject to the requirements of Section 153.316, with the 
designated person considered for purposes of that section to be the 
possessory conservator [Sections 153.316(5)-(9)];
		(3)  [(5)]  the designated person has the rights and 
duties of a nonparent possessory conservator under Section 
153.376(a) during the period that the person has possession of the 
child; and
		(4) [(6)]  the designated person is subject to any 
provision in a court order restricting or prohibiting access to the 
child by any specified individual.
	(d) [(c)]  After the military deployment is concluded, and 
the deployed parent returns to that parent's usual residence, the 
designated person's right to [limited] possession under this 
section terminates and the rights of all affected parties are 
governed by the terms of any court order applicable when a parent is 
not deployed.
	SECTION 2.  Section 156.105, Family Code, is amended to read 
as follows:     
	Sec. 156.105.  MODIFICATION OF ORDER BASED ON MILITARY 
DEPLOYMENT.  (a)  In this section, "military deployment" means 
military duty ordered for a period of more than six months during 
which the person ordered to duty:
		(1)  is not provided the option of being accompanied by 
the person's child; and
		(2)  is serving in a location where access to the 
person's child is not reasonably possible.
	(b)  The military deployment [outside this country] of a 
person who is a possessory conservator or a joint managing 
conservator without the exclusive right to designate the primary 
residence of the child is a material and substantial change of 
circumstances sufficient to justify a modification of an existing 
court order or portion of a decree that sets the terms and 
conditions for the possession of or access to a child.
	(c) [(b)]  If the court determines that modification is in 
the best interest of the child, the court may modify the order or 
decree to provide in a manner consistent with Section 153.3161 for 
[limited] possession of the child during the period of the military 
deployment by a person designated by the deployed conservator.
	SECTION 3.  Section 153.3161, Family Code, as amended by this 
Act, applies only to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship 
pending in a trial court on or filed on or after the effective date 
of this Act.
	SECTION 4.  Section 156.105, Family Code, as amended by this 
Act, applies only to an action to modify an order in a suit 
affecting the parent-child relationship pending in a trial court on 
or filed on or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.